Word: commands
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...deluded by his imagination or over-fondness for his characters. He vibrated intellectually to the thousand experiences and incidents of life, which he wove into the great pictorial tapestry of French manners. His dramatic intensity is evident in the masterful choice of details which he had at his command; yet every fact which he made use of is brought out in all its significance and relative value to the picture as a whole...
...road, Boston, on the only available land at the finish of the Harvard-Cornell University race on the Charles river, for use on the day of the race, May 27. The race will be rowed up stream from the Union Boat Club to Longwood bridge, and the stands will command a view of the course from Harvard bridge to the finish, occupying a frontage of 160 feet. They may be reached by taking Commonwealth avenue cars to Chilmark street, and walking one block to the river...
...fight is a severe one, but we who are the beneficiaries of Christianity should not refuse it to others, and remembering the biblical command to "go unto all the world and preach the gospel to every creature," we should make Christ's kingdom universal...
Fearless, just, and wise, of deep and simple faith, serene in affliction, self-restrained in success, unsuspected by any man of self-interest, you command the admiration of all men and the gratitude and loyalty of the sons of Harvard...
Colonel Higginson will show how his two years of experience in command of the first regiment of freed slaves mustered in the United States service during the Civil War proved to him that "they are intensely human." He will explain that the points which separate the colored people from the whites are trivial as compared with those they have in common, and that it is by simply dealing with them as human beings that we shall do them and ourselves most justice...